The sky had fallen.
The Heaven-Locking Array around Immortal-Breaking Mountain had shattered so completely that not even a scrap of its foundation remained. Spiritual energy from heaven and earth surged in from every direction like floodwaters bursting through a dam, pouring madly into the void above Spirit-Severing Valley.
In less than the time it took to drink half a cup of tea, an enormous mass of thunderclouds, so heavy they seemed ready to drip ink, had been forcibly squeezed into the sky hundreds of yards overhead.
Azure and crimson lightning churned and collided wildly within the clouds.
This was no ordinary thunderstorm. This was the law of heaven and earth in the Wild Nine Provinces.
Immortal cultivators cultivated by following heaven and earth, seeking resonance with spiritual energy. Ultimate Dao body cultivators, however, treated their flesh as a furnace, seeking to swallow all things between heaven and earth into their bellies. This azure-crimson storm of lightning had come specifically to reject and erase the heretical power of the Ultimate Dao, which dared to defy convention.
Inside the cave.
Lu Chen turned around. He strode over to A-Nan and, with his rough hands, lifted the little girl together with her bedding. Expressionless, he moved A-Nan to the deepest corner of the cave, the dead angle least likely to be affected.
He snatched over the thick Netherwind Wolf hide and wrapped A-Nan in layer after layer. Especially her eyes, covered by a white film—they were tightly shielded by the wolf hide, so not even a trace of the blinding lightning outside could seep through.
"Don't move around," Lu Chen threw out in a rough voice.
He turned his tall, burly body around and strode out of the cave.
The moment he stepped outside, he was met head-on by a terrifying pressure that